Price range: $700-$45000
1928 - 2004
A multi-awarded Canadian art legend and recipient of the Order of Canada, Toni Onley is best known for his watercolour landscapes of Canada’s West Coast. Born on the Isle of Man, he was influenced by traditional English landscape painters, particularly J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) and Archibald Knox (1864-1933). He emigrated to Canada in 1948, studying first at the Doon School of Fine Art in Ontario.
After moving to British Columbia in 1955, Onley was awarded a scholarship to the Institute Allende in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. There he studied under James Pinto (1907-1987) whose abstract impressionistic paintings inspired him to experiment with non-objective painting and collage, and later to produce his major period of abstract painting during 1961-1965.
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February 1 – March 4, 2020
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 1; 2-5 PM
This exhibition will span and exhibit works over the extensive and prolific career of Toni Onley. Almost a retrospective, this collection of works shown will range from the early 60s to the early 2000s.